Blog/2024-02-21/Motherboards and Locusts

Yesterday, I was trying to get a Supermicro board and Epyc processor up and running and encountered the strangest thing. It seemed that the combo would only work if I torqued the CPU cooler down to the 15 kg-cm it needed. I've never seen a processor that needed the cooler's force to keep it contacting all the pins. Strange.

Another bizarre thing I read about today is about Locusts. The Wikipedia page is pretty detailed and a fun read but, here's some of the highlights of their Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde operation:

1. Locusts are the same as some harmless grasshoppers

2. When enough of them are together, their contact causes serotonin to flood their brains

3. This turns them into the aggressive locusts!

4. Then they swarm around and migrate all over the place and eat everything green until they are far from each other again

Also, people kill them by spraying the shit out of them with a kind of fungus that just eats them from the inside out. Crazy!